The Taxonomy of Writing Systems: How to Measure How Logographic a System Is
Taxonomies of writing systems since Gelb (1952) have classified systems based on what the written symbols represent: if they represent words or morphemes, they are logographic; if syllables, syllabic; if segments, alphabetic; and so forth.Sproat (2000) and Rogers (2005) broke with tradition by splitting the logographic and phonographic aspects into